Increasing Student Learning through Technology and

Assessment: Humanities’ Focus

Featuring: Date April 26, 2010

Neil Stephenson
Time 5:00p-8:30p

Site Calgary Science School,

5915 Lewis Drive SW
Registration fee includes Fee $25/person
supper.
Grade Gr. 6-9

“Teaching and learning are visible in the classrooms of successful teachers and
students. The teacher must know when learning is correct or incorrect and
learn to monitor, seek and give feedback.” - John Hattie, Visible Learning, 2009

This session will present a number of ways that technology can be used to
assess student learning, both formatively and summatively. Focused around the
work of Anne Davies, this session will highlight the importance of creating
feedback loops in well-designed learning experiences. Participants will observe
how to build assessment practices into large-scale projects, and how multi-
media self-assessment can be a powerful tool for differentiated learning.
Participants will receive hands on experience with a number of tools and
websites that may be used to enhance assessment and deepen student learning.

In this session, teachers will:

• Learn the powerful research that supports assessment for learning

• Discover the significance of feedback loops in supporting student
learning
• Observe how formative assessment practices can be enhanced with
technology
• Explore different ways to embed assessment for learning into
classroom projects
• Discover the power of multi-media self-assessments to increase
student learning
• Be introduced to Google Docs and Voicethread as powerful
assessment tools

Neil Stephenson is currently the Professional Development and Outreach

Coordinator at the Calgary Science School (CSS). In this role, Neil supports
teachers to design meaningful, inquiry-based learning. Neil also coordinates the
Outreach efforts of the Science School, sharing CSS developed resources and
connecting students and teachers with those outside of the walls of the school.
In 2007 Neil was selected as an Apple Distinguished Educator, and was recently
awarded both the Prime Minister's Award and the Governor General's Award for
Excellence in Teaching.

REGISTER ONLINE www.crcpd.ab.ca

 Engaging ALL Learners: Supporting Inquiry with
Technology
(2-part Supper Series)

Featuring: Dates April 28 & May 5, 2010

Neil Stephenson
Time 5:00p-8:30p

Site Calgary Science School,

5915 Lewis Drive SW
Registration fee includes Fee $45/person
supper.
Grade All

Are you confused or unsure how to design and implement inquiry-based learning in your
classroom?

These sessions will provide a powerful example of how technology can be used to build
meaningful historical understanding and dramatically change assessment practices.
Participants will be introduced to a number of strong, inquiry-based projects designed at
the Calgary Science School. Participants in this two-part session will have hands-on
experience with a number of the tools and sites used to build and assess inquiry-based
work. Participants will also have the opportunity to see how to include information
literacy skills, such as assessing website credibility, can be included as a meaningful
part of a large-scale project. A variety of engaging tasks and assessment practices will
be shared. This session will be built around the Inquiry Task Rubric developed by the
Galileo Educational Network.

In these sessions, teachers will:

• Be inspired by a nationally award winning History Project

• Learn to build strong inquiry based work around the Galileo Task Assessment
Rubric
• Discover how to imbed critical thinking tasks into larger projects
• Observe about how formative assessment practices can be enhanced with
technology
• Discover the power of multimedia self- assessments
• Explore the many roles primary source images and digitized artifacts can
play in the classroom
• Discover how Google tools can be used to build collaboration and collective
knowledge building into their classrooms
• Learn how to embed research and information literacy skills into classroom
projects
• Inspire students to be engaged in meaningful and authentic historical
thinking

Neil Stephenson is currently the Professional Development and Outreach Coordinator

at the Calgary Science School (CSS). In this role, Neil helps to support teachers to
design meaningful, inquiry-based learning. Neil also coordinates the Outreach efforts of
the Science School, sharing CSS developed resources and connecting students and
teachers with those outside of the walls of the school. In 2007 Neil was selected as an
Apple Distinguished Educator, and was recently awarded both the Prime Minister's
Award and the Governor General's Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Register for this session online at www.crcpd.ab.ca

REGISTER ONLINE www.crcpd.ab.ca

Professional Development for the 21st Century Educator:
Building Your Own Learning Network
(2-part Supper Series for ALL Grades, Humanities’ Focus)

Featuring: Dates May 11 & 18, 2010

Neil Stephenson
Time 5:00p-8:30p

Site Calgary Science School,

5915 Lewis Drive SW
Registration fee includes Fee $45/person
supper.
Grade All

Technology allows teachers to connect and share their practice like never
before.

According to David Warlick, Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) allow teachers

to “attract information from other professional educators, experts in the field of
study, current news and news searches, and other relevant sources from a
growing library of web-based digital content.” This session will introduce
participants to the basics of web 2.0 technology and social networks.
Participants will leave the session with the basic skills necessary to start
building their own PLN, and how learn from and share their practice with other
educators around the globe.

In this two part series, participants will:

• Be introduced to the concept of Web 2.0

• Discover the power of building a Personal Learning Network (PLN)
• Subscribe to a number of Professional Development blogs for all
educational
• topics, including technology integration and Social Studies
• Learn what RSS is and how to set up an RSS reader
• Learn how to set up a teacher blog
• Explore how Twitter can be used to access the knowledge of
educators from
• around the globe
• Be inspired by how Learning Networks can be used to extend
students learning outside of the classroom

Neil Stephenson is currently the Professional Development and Outreach

Coordinator at the Calgary Science School (CSS). In this role, Neil helps to
support teachers to design meaningful, inquiry-based learning. Neil also
coordinates the Outreach efforts of the Science School, sharing CSS developed
resources and connecting students and teachers with those outside of the walls
of the school. In 2007 Neil was selected as an Apple Distinguished Educator,
and was recently awarded both the Prime Minister's Award and the Governor
General's Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Register for this session online at www.crcpd.ab.ca

REGISTER ONLINE www.crcpd.ab.ca